Internment, Imprisonment and Escape - Jailbreak
General Seán Mac Eoin, The Blacksmith of Ballinalee, Mullingar
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HE:EW.2735
General Seán Mac Eoin, The Blacksmith of Ballinalee, Mullingar
General Seán Mac Eoin, leader of the North Longford Flying Column, and also known as the Blacksmith of Ballinalee, pointing out the place in Mullingar where he unsuccessfully tried to escape in 1921. Mac Eoin was sentenced to death, which was averted when Michael Collins insisted he be released as part of the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
Suíomh:
General Seán Mac Eoin, The Blacksmith of Ballinalee, Mullingar suite ag:
In Storage
An déantán roimhe seo:
Commandant Jim Conroy, Colonel Tom Keogh and Commandant Frank Bolster, Kilmainham Jail, May 1921
An chéad déantán eile:
5th Royal Irish Rifles at Ballykinlar Camp, Co. Down, 1913